Spring 2019 Seminar Series

Tuesday, February 12, 2019 – Genetics/Biotechnology Center room 1360
Attentional Control of Human Visual Working Memory

  • Brad Postle, PhD (Psychology; Psychiatry)
    Attentional control of visual perception
  • Qing Yu, PhD, Research Scientist (Postle Lab)
    Prioritizing the contents of visual working memory

Tuesday, March 12, 2019 – WIMR II conference room 3571
One Health/One Vision: A Comparative Approach to Understanding Glaucoma Pathophysiology

  • Gillian McLellan, BVMS, PhD, DECVO, DACVO (Ophthalmology and Visual Sciences, SMPH; Surgical Sciences, Veterinary Medicine)
    From front to back: Unraveling complex structure-function relationships in glaucoma
  • Kazuya Oikawa, DVM (McLellan Lab; Research Fellow, Comparative Biomedical Sciences Program)
    Neuro-inflammation and degeneration in the optic nerve head in a spontaneous glaucoma model

Tuesday, April 9, 2019 – Genetics/Biotechnology Center room 1360
Communicating Your Science Beyond Your Field – In Lay Language!

  • H. Adam Steinberg, Illuminating Discovery Educator (Wisconsin Inst. for Discovery; artforscience)
    What info are you really sending? What are people receiving?
  • Terry Devitt, Director of Research Communications (UW Communications)
    The art of science writing to enable understanding of complex ideas

Tuesday, May 14, 2019 – WIMR II conference room 3571
Using Zebrafish to study in vivo cell signaling

  • Brian Link, PhD (Ophthalmology and Visual Sciences; Cell Biology, Neurobiology & Anatomy, Medical College of Wisconsin);
    Cell signaling during retinal neurogenesis
  • Ross Collery, PhD (Ophthalmology and Visual Sciences; Cell Biology, Neurobiology & Anatomy, Medical College of Wisconsin)
    In vivo imaging following precise ablation of zebrafish retinal cell signaling components

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